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[estirose]

I don't want to make a poll, but I'm curious.

How do people feel about translations of their work? Do you love them? Hate them? Ever wish someone would?

The reason I ask is sometimes I like to try my hand at translations into Esperanto (and post them on AO3 for the most part), and sometimes I think it would be cool to translate peoples' fics as sort of a birthday present, but I realize that people are a bit touchy about that.

(Personally? I'm flexible about it. But then again, I've been caught by the remix bug, and I am getting really excited about remix, and I love remixing/having my stuff remixed. And translations are a lot less of a change than remixes, I think.)

(And, um... I realize that there might be a difference in how people feel about being translated into a 'real' language as opposed to Esperanto, which is an international auxiliary language, aka a constructed language. Even though Esperanto has native speakers.)

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[scifisentai]

Someone once asked if they could translate a couple of my SPD fics into French (I think, this was a while ago) and after the initial o_O reaction wore off I was kind of flattered that they'd liked it that much so I told them to go ahead. Links are always good, though, because I didn't get one from that and I was always curious as to how it was received.